I remember watching the first movie when I was 4 or 5, and I really enjoyed it. I saw the 2nd one a while later, and I realized there were Harry Potter books too (yeah, I know, fail). The summer before the film version of Prisoner of Azkaban came out, I decided to get a copy of PoA to read during car trips. I loved it. However, as excited for the PoA movie as I was, I bailed on it because of the shrunken head. That was the creepiest thing ever. When school started again (I was in 2nd grade, I think) I began reading all the books. I actually competed against my friend to see who could finish them all first. Yep, I actually finished all the way to OotP. (I was a smart kid, lol) When The PoA DVD had been out for a while, I decided I would finally see it. It was incredible. I adored it to no end. Now as you would expect, I got HBP on day of release. It was great . Then GoF became my first HP movie I saw in theaters. My uncle stood in line for 3 hours just to get Deathly Hallows For me at midnight. I read it in 2 days, which I thought was pretty amazing. I saw OotP On opening day, and then later in IMAX, which was awesome. I saw HBP on release day too. Then DHp1 became my first movie I ever saw at midnight premiere, despite having school the next day. Now by the time you read all this, you would be able to tell I'm a huge HP fan. I actually got my entire family and sister into it. Me and my dad had to get seperate copies of DH because we both couldn't wait to read it. Harry Potter had been amazing, and I thank JK Rowling for my childhood
I remember watching the first movie when I was 4 or 5, and I really enjoyed it. I saw the 2nd one a while later, and I realized there were Harry Potter books too (yeah, I know, fail). The summer before the film version of Prisoner of Azkaban came out, I decided to get a copy of PoA to read during car trips. I loved it. However, as excited for the PoA movie as I was, I bailed on it because of the shrunken head. That was the creepiest thing ever. When school started again (I was in 2nd grade, I think) I began reading all the books. I actually competed against my friend to see who could finish them all first. Yep, I actually finished all the way to OotP. (I was a smart kid, lol) When The PoA DVD had been out for a while, I decided I would finally see it. It was incredible. I adored it to no end. Now as you would expect, I got HBP on day of release. It was great . Then GoF became my first HP movie I saw in theaters. My uncle stood in line for 3 hours just to get Deathly Hallows For me at midnight. I read it in 2 days, which I thought was pretty amazing. I saw OotP On opening day, and then later in IMAX, which was awesome. I saw HBP on release day too. Then DHp1 became my first movie I ever saw at midnight premiere, despite having school the next day. Now by the time you read all this, you would be able to tell I'm a huge HP fan. I actually got my entire family and sister into it. Me and my dad had to get seperate copies of DH because we both couldn't wait to read it. Harry Potter had been amazing, and I thank JK Rowling for my childhood
Awesome; I enjoyed reading that. I saw Deathly Hallows: Part One at Midnight and *missed* school the next day lol
I was part of a longtime LOTR fansite when they all began discussing Harry Potter as well. I bought the books for my young daughter and we read them together. We were both hooked immediately and that was before the OoTP book was released. We attended every midnight release for the books and films from then on.
Coolest thing I've done is I had a " Harry Potter Christmas " about 7 years ago. Turned my dining room into the Great Hall , had floating candles from the ceiling ( a clever trick I did which made me feel very Hermione-ish ) , had crystal balls with red, blue, yellow and green stones in them for House Points. I awarded points for different things like, helping serve Christmas dinner ( I made an traditional English Christmas dinner complete with treacle tarts ) , cleaning up after , and I would throw out lines from the book and the correct answers got points. Everyone was sorted before dinner , Sorting Hat and all. I also had found chains to put on the bottles of wine that lent to a castle atmosphere and the table was loaded with candles.
I had a House Cup to be awarded which was a bottle of Crown Royal. ( For the grown-ups only ) I bought wands for my daughter and niece from England and they opened them to the music from SS/PS wand scene. To keep it Christmas-y I had the different houses team up and perform Christmas Carols for more points. I also had sent invitations to it , on real parchment and lettered in green mandrake ink I bought and used a quill to address and sealed with wax.
I had HP pictures of all the Houses framed on the walls , and everyone entered at the same time with the SS/PS soundtrack playing " Harry's Wondrous World ". Everyone agreed it was the best Christmas they ever had and the most fun. I had such a grand time planning it and it was my proudest Potter moment.
actually im a bit jealous because i woulda loved to have grown up with this....we had transformers and g.i. joe and we had to wait this long for these movies to hit the big screen....i would have love to have started from the beginning also
I never read the books before. I became a fans of HP since the day i watched PS when i was 11. The reason why i never read the books before is because I am not the kind that love to read. But, when I was 17, I follow my friends to the public library near my house and i saw Order of the Phoenix was there. So I ask one of my friend to borrow the book for me because I don't have a membership card. At that time, OotP the movie was about to come out in a week. When i started to read the book, i was so hooked that i can't stop reading it! I finished the book in 3 days and I'm surprised of myself because I never really read novels before plus this book is huge! Then i collect some money to buy HBP which is the very first novel that i have btw . Then of course i bought DH when it was released.
Now I have all Harry Potter's books and have read, reread, and read again so many time! Not only that, now i have develop some passion toward reading as well
My mom read them to me and my brothers as kids, and she found out about it from a woman she worked with, as her kids were reading it before it was even popular. We have early editions of the first four novels, and we have many different copies of the books all over our house. I saw each Harry Potter movie in theaters, have standard definition DVD's and Blu Ray DVD's, and bought Deathly Hallows Part 1 the day the DVD was out. I have bought my midnight tickets and everytime I hear Leaving Hogwarts I am on the verge of tears, because that song has helped me through many tough times because of how inspiring it is. The books have taught me ways of life, the importance of friendship and choices, the power of love and that death is not something to be afraid of. I owe it all to Joanne Rowling.
I discovered Harry Potter by accident. I worked for entertainment segment of my local newspaper, so my job made me watched Sorcerer Stone, and I didn't like it at all. A year later (late 2002), I was at my home waiting for a phone call, and I notice there was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer Stone laying on the table (It was my father's). So, I was so bored I decided to grab the book and start to read that. I got hooked right away! I couldn't stop reading. Few days later, I bought all four books (at that time Goblet of Fire was the latest) and finishing all the books maybe in a week. At the same time, Chambers of Secrets was out on the theater, and I watched it like 6 times. Then I re-watched Sorcerer Stone with different perspective and I was totally fall in love with it. The coolest thing I did was to pass all the books to my younger sister. When I started reading the first book, she was just born, and now she's 9 years old and is going to start reading Sorcerer Stone for the first time. I'm so exited for her
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( ^ Reading through that is just beyond incredible ^ )
Mysterious thing time.
Mysterious thing time.
Mysterious thing time.
Coolest thing I've done is I had a " Harry Potter Christmas " about 7 years ago. Turned my dining room into the Great Hall , had floating candles from the ceiling ( a clever trick I did which made me feel very Hermione-ish ) , had crystal balls with red, blue, yellow and green stones in them for House Points. I awarded points for different things like, helping serve Christmas dinner ( I made an traditional English Christmas dinner complete with treacle tarts ) , cleaning up after , and I would throw out lines from the book and the correct answers got points. Everyone was sorted before dinner , Sorting Hat and all. I also had found chains to put on the bottles of wine that lent to a castle atmosphere and the table was loaded with candles.
I had a House Cup to be awarded which was a bottle of Crown Royal. ( For the grown-ups only ) I bought wands for my daughter and niece from England and they opened them to the music from SS/PS wand scene. To keep it Christmas-y I had the different houses team up and perform Christmas Carols for more points. I also had sent invitations to it , on real parchment and lettered in green mandrake ink I bought and used a quill to address and sealed with wax.
I had HP pictures of all the Houses framed on the walls , and everyone entered at the same time with the SS/PS soundtrack playing " Harry's Wondrous World ". Everyone agreed it was the best Christmas they ever had and the most fun. I had such a grand time planning it and it was my proudest Potter moment.
I'd love to be your relative;that's sounds amazing and clever.
Mysterious thing time.
Now I have all Harry Potter's books and have read, reread, and read again so many time! Not only that, now i have develop some passion toward reading as well
I owe it all to Joanne Rowling.
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These tales are awesome
Mysterious thing time.